Hindi the national language of India is an Indo-Aryan language with over 500 million speakers. It is
one of the official languages of India and is the main language used in the northern states of
Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal
Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar, and is spoken in much of north and central India alongside other
languages such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi or Bengali. In other parts of India, as well as in Nepal,
Bangladesh and Pakistan, Hindi is understood. In Fiji people of Indian origin speak Hindi, and in some
areas the Fijian people also speak it.